T43 under Fedora Core 4

I’m now running a Thinkpad T43 under Fedora Core 4. The entire installation process was painless; the machine seems well-supported by FC4. Some non-obvious notes, though: Bluetooth is recognized as a built-in USB device. To make this work after su…

Bluetooth is recognized as a built-in USB device. To make this work after suspend/resume, remove the modules uhci_hcd, ehci_hcd, and hci_usb before putting the machine to sleep, and re-add them after wakeup.

The built-in Intel i915 graphics adapter is supported either by the Vesa driver, or by the i810 driver. The latter will only work if you install some recent DRI drivers.

To make Xorg work after suspend/resume, make sure you add acpi_sleep=s3_bios to your kernel command line.

I haven’t tried the built-in modemThat said, the machine makes generally a very good impression. It’s slimmer and lighter than my old Thinkpad R40, while at the same time making a much more robust impression.The only negative observations so far: The T43 heats up much quicker than the R40, hence the fan ends up running most of the time; I wonder if this is related to the driver that I’m using for the graphics adapter. Also, probably due to the reduced height of the laptop, the keyboard has a different and, I think, more flimsy touch than the one on the R40 — that machine has probably the best keyboards (laptop or desktop) I have ever used.